Megalocoleus

Megalocoleus
Megalocoleus tanaceti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Miridae
Subfamily:	Phylinae
Tribe:	Phylini
Genus:	Megalocoleus Reuter, 1890

Megalocoleus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are about 18 described species in Megalocoleus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Megalocoleus tanaceti

Species

These 18 species belong to the genus Megalocoleus:

• Megalocoleus aurantiacus (Fieber, 1858)
• Megalocoleus bolivari (Reuter, 1879)
• Megalocoleus chrysotrichus (Fieber, 1864)
• Megalocoleus delicatus (Perris, 1857)
• Megalocoleus dissimilis (Reuter, 1876)
• Megalocoleus eckerleini Wagner, 1969
• Megalocoleus exsanguis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835)
• Megalocoleus femoralis (Reuter, 1879)
• Megalocoleus krueperi (Reuter, 1879)
• Megalocoleus longirostris (Fieber, 1861)
• Megalocoleus lunula (Fieber, 1861)
• Megalocoleus matricariae Wagner, 1968
• Megalocoleus mellae (Reuter, 1876)
• Megalocoleus molliculus (Fallén, 1807)
• Megalocoleus naso (Reuter, 1879)
• Megalocoleus stysi Matocq, 2008
• Megalocoleus tanaceti (Fallén, 1807)
• Megalocoleus tarsalis (Reuter, 1894)

References

1. "Megalocoleus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Megalocoleus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Megalocoleus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Kerzhner, I. M.; Josifov, M. (1999). Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 3: Cimicimorpha II: Miridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN   978-90-71912-19-1.
• "On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34 (1): 15–48. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.498.8756 . doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x.

External links

• Media related to Megalocoleus at Wikimedia Commons